Means Quotes

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Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of… — Kenny Smith
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch. — Unknown Author
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men… — George Ellery Hale
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to… — Arthur Dove
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take… — Maya Angelou
I love my life! Even if I don't get what I want, when I want it, doesn't mean the world is against me, it just… — Andrea Jones
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to… — Galileo Galilei
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the… — John Bertram Phillips
It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand. — Carl Sagan
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. — Francis Marion Crawford
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success… — Denzel Washington
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking… — Mahatma Gandhi
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to… — Maxwell Maltz
The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world… — Byron Katie
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it. — Bubba Watson
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice. — Seve Ballesteros
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it… — Joseph Epstein
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the… — Robert Collier
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but… — Aldous Huxley

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